The ability to back up all your apps, settings and data (encrypted, of course) so that you can restore *everything* on to a new chromebook should your's get lost, stolen or die appeals to some folks.
Posts by Fungus Bob
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Google touts managed Linux, gets cosy with Dell in Chromebook Enterprise push
Biz forked out $115k to tout 'Time AI' crypto at Black Hat. Now it sues organizers because hackers heckled it
Overstock dot-gone: Surplus biz CEO now surplus to requirements, ejects after Russian spy fling, deep state rant
Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date
Re: That's Chromebook right out of my buying list then
"It is not acceptable to me that a supplier artificially limits updating hardware to less than the hardware's expected lifespan."
Actually, Google isn't the supplier. Their policy still sucks though. Makes upgrading the BIOS so you can install Gallium more attractive.
RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81
You monsters: Screen time murders your kid's imaginary friend – until they reach school age
Re: Er ...
Simple test:
1. Do you live in someone else's thumb?
Yes: You are imaginary
No: You may be real
2. does your nose grow when you tell a lie?
Yes: You are Pinocchio
No: You are a real boy
3. Did someone else shit your pants during a night of heavy drinking?
Yes: You are an alcoholic
I said it was simple, not useful...
Oh chute. Doubts cast on ExoMars lander's 2020 red planet jaunt after another failed test
WTF is Boeing on? Not just customer databases lying around on the web. 787 jetliner code, too, security bugs and all
Neuroscientist used brainhack. It's super effective! Oh, and disturbingly easy
Researchers find development and conservation aren't mutually exclusive
Trump continues on the warpath: Now US tariffs cover nearly everything arriving from China
As the world secures itself, so do crims: Encrypted malware on the rise, warns Sonicwall
Fantastic Mr Fox? Not when he sh*ts on your lawn, kids' trampoline and your soul
First, deal with the neighbor. Report him/her/it to whatever local authority would deal with someone creating a habitat for vermin. May take several complaints to be effective.
Second, Chain link. With the bottom of the fence a couple inches below ground level and set in concrete. Expensive but the foxes will have to poop on your idiot neighbor's lawn.
It's so hot, UK needs to start naming heatwaves like we do when it's a bit windy – climate boffins
LightSail 2 successfully unfurls its silvery solar sails, prepares to become a truly solar-powered satellite
Low Barr: Don't give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General
It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory
We don't mean to poo-poo this, but... The Internet of S**t has literally arrived thanks to Pampers smart diapers
Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again
Elon Musk's new idea is to hook your noggin up to an AI – but is he just insane about the brain?
2019 set to be the worst year yet for smartphone market as lack of worthy upgrades dents demand
Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong
I don't have to save my work, it's in The Cloud. But Microsoft really must fix this files issue
Malicious code ousted from PureScript's npm installer – but who put it there in the first place?
Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note
Bonkers British MPs rant: 5G signals cause cancer
Brexit: Digital border possible for Irish backstop woes, UK MPs told
Microsoft: 2TB or not 2... OK, OK! 2TB. OneDrive dragged kicking and screaming into selling more storage
The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco
Eggheads have found a positive link between the number of racist tweets and the number of racist hate crimes in US cities
Open-heart nerdery: Boffins suggest identifying and logging in people using ECGs
Curioser and curioser: Little Mars rover sniffs out highest ever levels of methane
Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?
Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity
Re: Brevity.
No one should have to reset a fucking door either, but Chevrolet introduced such a thing in the 2000 Venture minivan. Was a Goddamn stupid idea. The compass could get fucked up too. To reset it, you had to drive the van in circles until it started working again. You've never seen a Venture? Maybe this is why.
The latest FCC plan to boost US broadband? Prevent competition in apartment blocks
Google: We're not killing ad blockers. Translation: We made them too powerful, we'll cram this genie back in its bottle
Please be aliens, please be aliens, please be aliens... Boffins discover mystery mass beneath Moon's biggest crater
If your broadband bill is too high consider moving to Idaho, they get the internet for free
But they aren't paying enough to pay for the wear and tear they do to our roads. Damage does not increase in a linear manner with weight, the average semi is 4.5 times heavier than the average car but does 410 times the damage.
https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weight-vs-road-damage-levels/
Russian Jesus gives up food to meditate on how he can improve crypto messenger Telegram
Church roofs? Nyet, say Russian scrap thieves, we're taking this bridge
Tech lobbyists turn on Trump over Mexican tariffs, then quickly try to smooth the waters
Re: Trump is right
"You're assuming in (A) that the goods coming from Mexico will continue to be bought by Americans at a higher price, instead of being sourced from another country sans tariff."
Of course we will buy them because they,re not going to come from somewhere else. Companies that have invested lots of time, money and effort to set up production facilities in Mexico aren't going to duplicate all that work to set up operations somewhere else just because the Tweet-Potato-In-Chief imposed a 5% price hike.
Google relents slightly in ad-blocker crackdown – for paid-up enterprise Chrome users, everyone else not so much
Re: Mozilla take note
Vivaldi's official statement on Twitter:
"Manifest V3 seems to still be in the design stages and we expect that Chromium developers will take into account the needs of users and extension developers as they finalize this new manifest. We'll be following closely and come up with a plan based on their final decision."
So, no substance, just fiffy-faff.